Brokerage firm TradeStation Securities, Inc today announced the availability of CME Group Single Stock Futures (SSFs), a new suite of financially settled futures contracts on individual U.S. stocks.

SSFs allow traders to take long or short positions on individual U.S. stocks through CME-cleared futures contracts without owning or borrowing the underlying shares. The contracts include both standard (100-share multiplier) and micro (10-share multiplier) sizes, providing traders with greater flexibility in how they access individual stock exposure.

The initial launch includes 55 standard-sized and 22 micro-sized contracts across more than 50 leading U.S. stocks from the S&P 500®, Nasdaq-100® and Russell 1000®, including:

• Mega-cap technology and growth names: Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta (META), Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA)
• Additional coverage: Micron (MU), SpaceX (SPCX), and 40+ other leading U.S. stocks.

The contracts trade nearly 24 hours a day, Sunday through Friday, on CME Globex.

Designed for active stock, options, and futures traders, SSFs provide another way to trade familiar names with the flexibility of futures. The contracts allow traders to express directional views on individual stocks through a single futures contract while offering features such as margin-based capital efficiency. Like other futures products, SSFs carry a high degree of risk and use leverage, meaning traders can lose more than their initial investment, so they’re best suited for those who understand the mechanics of futures trading.

“SSFs give active traders one more way to trade the names they’re already watching,” said John Bartleman, President and CEO of TradeStation Group, Inc. “By pairing exposure to individual U.S. stocks with a margin-based, nearly around-the-clock structure, these new contracts provide another way for traders to explore new strategies. We’re pleased to be among the first retail broker-dealers to offer CME Group SSFs and continue expanding access to innovative futures products.”

“We are pleased to work with firms like TradeStation in expanding access to CME Group Single Stock futures,” said Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equities, FX and Alternative Products at CME Group. “Broader access to these centrally cleared, financially settled contracts brings the capital efficiencies and near 24/7 access of the futures market to leading U.S. stocks, providing investors with a highly transparent, regulated tool to manage their equity exposure.”